Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (1971-), also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Abu Duais the commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, fighting in the Iraqi Civil War of the 2000s. Holding a PHD in Islamic studies, he became the leader of the ISIS organization in 2013, taking over from Al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch.

Biography
Born in Samarra in Iraq in 1971, Bakr gained a PHD doctorate in Islamic studies, and after the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2003, Bakr became the leader of militia groups that resisted US government. He was promoted to the Majlis al-Shura of the Mujahideen and the judicial council of the Islamic State of Iraq, and the government of Iraq released him with the permission of President George W. Bush of the US in 2009, as he was of low value at the time.

In 2010, after Abu Omar al-Baghdadi's death, he became the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, and in 2013 he declared the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. He launched the "ISIS Offensive" in June of 2014, overrunning almost all of northern Iraq within a week.